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Keynote Meeting

Earning the Trust of a Business Customer

As consumers, the more interacting we do and the more transparent our society becomes, the more “trust” becomes important. We demand more straightforward and objective information from the companies we buy from. And business customers are making similar demands. To compete effectively today, you have to be able to earn and keep the trust of your business customers, which can sometimes be a problem, because not all business customers are so trustworthy themselves!

In this luncheon speech, Don Peppers will discuss what it means to be “trustable,” or proactively trustworthy, and how you can use this as a competitive strategy. Some of the things he’ll cover include:

What it means to be trustable, and how companies like Microsoft and Syngenta use trustability to strengthen their relationships with enterprise customers

Strategies for maintaining your profitability when selling to “tough customers” – those giant or powerful buyers with punishing procurement departments

Finding and cultivating “good customers” – customers more likely to want to engage in profitable, ongoing partnerships with their vendors

Competing for business in today’s lackluster economy, and how to be ready when the rebound happens

With co-author Martha Rogers, Ph.D., Peppers has produced a legacy of international best-selling books that have collectively sold well over a million copies in 18 languages. Peppers’ and Rogers’ newest book, their ninth, is Extreme Trust: Honesty as a Competitive Advantage. It suggests that social networks and rapidly increasing transparency have combined to raise customer expectations regarding the trustworthiness of the companies and organizations they deal with.

Every luncheon attendee will receive a copy of Don’s new book, Extreme Trust ($27.95 value). Don will be happy to sign your book after the meeting. Don’t miss this exciting event with a marketing icon and add an autographed copy of Peppers’ and Rogers’ enlightening new book to your personal library!

Speaker(s)

Don PeppersFounding Partner, Peppers & Rogers Group

Recognized for more than 20 years as one of the world’s leading authorities on customer-focused business strategies, Don Peppers is an acclaimed author and a founding partner of Peppers & Rogers Group, the world’s premier customer-centric management consulting firm. The Times of London has listed Don among their “Top 50 Business Brains,” Accenture has included him in its global list of the “Top 100 Business Intellectuals,” and the U.K.’s Chartered Institute for Marketing put him on its inaugural listing of the “50 most influential thinkers in marketing and business today.”

Don has a popular voice in the worldwide media and writes frequently as an “expert blogger” for FastCompany.com. His thought leadership, keynote presentations, and executive workshops routinely focus on the business issues that today’s global enterprises are grappling with, while trying to maintain a competitive edge in their marketplace.